Stardew Valley 1.6.9 Patch Notes Include Legendary Fish Ponds And A New Way To Rescue Lost Items

Stardew Valley model 1.6 launched for PC in March, however console and cellular gamers have been instructed they’d have to attend for the large free replace to land on their platform of selection. Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone paused all work on his subsequent mission, Haunted Chocolatier, to give attention to getting Stardew Valley’s closing main replace out on all platforms, and months later, the 1.6.9 replace is now accessible for all gamers.

The 1.6.9 replace consists of quite a lot of helpful options, like the flexibility to place legendary-tier fish in ponds and a few new methods for gamers to to rescue gadgets they’ve by chance misplaced. The replace additionally consists of bug fixes, steadiness tweaks, and new gameplay options.

So far as the brand new stuff goes, the Stardew Valley 1.6.9 replace provides the next options to the sport:

• In the event you lose an merchandise that may’t be discovered once more, examine the Secret Woods for a brand new NPC who can get it again… for a value.
• Gamers can now put legendary fish in fish ponds. Just one fish can slot in every pond. Ponds with legendary fish will produce legendary fish roe. Every legendary fish turns the pond’s water a special coloration.
• Gamers can now place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that enable furnishings.
• Items dropped in water will now float for a quick time, so gamers can accumulate them in the event that they’re fast (or if they’ve a magnet ring).
• Sam and Shane’s work portraits will now seem inside JojaMartas lengthy as they’re working there.
• Some dialogue has been barely tweaked.
• New Easter eggs have been added to the sport.
• Hidden cheat instructions have been added (on platforms the place a save edit is feasible).

Barone confirmed the replace’s launch date in a publish on the Stardew Valley boards again in September. The 1.6.9 replace accommodates content material than the unique 1.6 replace lacked, together with quality-of-life adjustments like pine timber offering further lumber, weeds now not stopping fruit timber from rising, and the addition of recent gadgets to sure in-game retailers.

Sadly, plainly the replace isn’t yet working for PlayStation users in Europe. Moreover, it appears to have triggered a bug leading to disappearing chickens for brand spanking new gamers utilizing the Meadowlands farm. Barone acknowledged each points on Twitter, and confirmed that he is at present working to repair them.

Hold scrolling for a take a look at the complete 1.6.9 patch notes, or examine them out through the game’s official website.

Stardew Valley 1.6.9 patch notes

New content material & options

• In the event you misplaced an merchandise that may’t be discovered once more, a new friend appears in the secret woods who can get it again (for a value).
• Now you can put legendary fish in fish ponds. These are restricted to at least one per pond and produce legendary fish roe. Every fish has a novel water coloration.
• Now you can place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that enable furnishings.
• Items dropped in water now float for a short while, so you’ll be able to accumulate them when you’re fast or have a magnet ring.
• Sam and Shane now have work portraits whereas working at JojaMart.
• Barely tweaked some dialogues.
• Added new Easter eggs.
• Added hidden cheat commands. (Solely on platforms the place a save edit is feasible)

Steadiness adjustments

• Blue grass now not grows slower than regular grass.
• Fruit tree progress is now not blocked by grass and seed spots.
• Pine timber now drop one further wooden when chopped down.
• The initiation quest now counts wild slimes killed on the farm.
• Thorns ring harm now stacks when you equip two of them, and monsters killed by a thorns ring now drop loot like common kills.
• With the Gatherer talent, the prospect to double harvested forage now applies when utilizing an iridium scythe too.
• Son of Crimsonfish can now be caught through the evening market.
• Robin now not constructs buildings throughout inexperienced rain in yr 1.
• Inserting a bomb after which switching to a weapon now not applies its enchantments to the bomb harm.
• Added some gadgets to retailers:
  • Adventurer’s Guild: Rusty Sword, Femur, Elf Blade, Metal Smallsword, Crystal Dagger, Obsidian Edge, and Work Boots. These unlock after you attain a sure mine stage, no matter whether or not you discovered them in a mine chest.
  • Marnie’s store: Cow Decal.
  • Hat mouse: Sports activities Cap.
  • Willy’s store: Superior Iridium Rod.
• Passing trains at the moment are extra prone to occur a number of occasions in the identical session, however can now not seem on consecutive days.
• Willy’s store now opens on spring 2 within the first yr even when you didn’t learn his letter.
• Mounted Queen of Sauce reruns being affected by the recipes wanted by unclaimed farmhands in empty cabins.
• Mounted having the ability to obtain monster harm whereas leaping down a mine shaft earlier than the display fades to black.
• Mounted spa not absolutely recovering vitality when a max-energy buff is energetic.
• Mounted sleeping late whereas exhausted not decreasing stamina as meant.
• Mounted {the catalogue} and Furnishings Catalogue promoting gadgets from themed catalogues like Retro Catalogue.
• Mounted exploit the place a fish pond with a golden cracker may produce limitless output. Fish pond output bonuses at the moment are utilized as soon as when the output is created.
• Mounted exploit the place you could possibly cancel cow milking and nonetheless get the friendship increase.
• Mounted unintended further probability of spontaneous inexperienced rain timber when loading a save in fall.
• Mounted talent buffs affecting store merchandise necessities in 1.6.
• Mounted sturdy ring now not halving debuff occasions in 1.6.
• Mounted decrease probability of catching lava eels in caldera after 1.6.
• Mounted forage crops harvested from backyard pots at all times being low-quality and offering no XP.
• Mounted iridium scythe with forage crops not giving XP or making use of the forage stage high quality increase.
• Mounted some weapons by no means dropping from crates when legacy randomization is enabled.

High quality of life adjustments

• The sport now recovers most saves mechanically in the event that they’re damaged, corrupted, or lacking the SaveGameInfo file.
• The sport now resends most achievements, recipes, and vital mail when you someway missed them. For PlayStation/Xbox gamers, missed trophies are readded when perform a specific action instead.
• Fish ponds now present the variety of roe or different output gadgets to gather.
• The marriage occasion now replays when you exit & reload the day.
• The tailoring UI is now a bit extra intuitive: slots that may’t settle for the held merchandise at the moment are disabled, and you’ll now not decide up some gadgets that may’t be tailor-made.
• Coloured gadgets like flowers now additionally kind by coloration. That avoids gadgets being reordered randomly every time you kind your stock.
• Now you can solely promote books to the bookseller through the ebook buy menu, not the trade-in menu. This reduces the prospect of by chance promoting a ebook when making an attempt to commerce it in.
• The collections tab now reveals artifacts, gems, and minerals as soon as they’re donated to the museum (not as quickly as you discover it).
• Clint now refills your watering can when upgrading it.
• Tweaked save course of to scale back the prospect of corruption.
• Anvils now not settle for parrot eggs when you can’t re-roll their stage but.
• Improved chatbox instructions:
  • Chat instructions at the moment are case-insensitive.
  • Modified /assist format to make room for extra instructions.
  • Added /assist descriptions for /emote, /mapScreenshot, and /unbanAll.
  • Added constant messages when you’ll be able to’t use a multiplayer-only or host-only command.
• Efficiency optimizations.

Technical adjustments

• Migrated from FAudio to OpenAL, which ought to enhance efficiency when enjoying audio.
• Up to date SDL from 2.0.x to 2.30.4 (used for enter and windowing).
• Mounted compatibility with newer Home windows programs when utilizing some older GPUs.

Gameplay fixes

• You possibly can now not swap a chest’s kind if the brand new kind is just too small to retailer its present gadgets.
• Mounted NPC points:
  • NPCs now not keep away from satisfactory terrain options like flooring and grass when pathfinding.
  • Mounted kicking Krobus out of the home triggering divorce dialogues.
  • Mounted Leo following his island schedule after transferring to the mainland.
  • Mounted a Lewis schedule the place he would overlap Marnie.
  • Mounted a Penny resort dialogue when married that was by no means proven.
  • Mounted Pierre generally displaying a closed-on-Wednesday dialogue after his store hours are prolonged.
  • Mounted mother or dad sending duplicate mail when you change gender later.
  • Mounted some dialogue based mostly on location + coronary heart stage solely being proven in case you have 10 or extra hearts with the NPC.
  • Mounted particular NPC present response dialogue generally not matching their present style (e.g. Willy giving a constructive dialogue for triple shot espresso).
  • Mounted unable to speak to Robin after accepting a home improve.
  • Mounted incorrectly break up dialogue in Linus’ first coronary heart occasion.
  • Mounted NPCs unable to pathfind by tiles that had a tent in the beginning of the day.
  • Mounted NPCs not loading their inexperienced rain dialogue when you began the day on the island.
  • Mounted NPCs saying “…” in 1.6 in the event that they purchased an merchandise you offered to a store however they don’t have a related dialogue for it.
  • Mounted your partner generally saying “…” as an alternative of the meant impartial dialogue.
  • Mounted your fiancée/partner reacting to a mermaid’s pendant as when you’re engaged/married to another person.
• Mounted UI points:
  • Mounted world map not at all times displaying gamers on the proper spot once they’re inside a constructed constructing.
  • Mounted hyperlinks in credit now not opening a browser web page.
  • Mounted in a position to work together with HUD components just like the toolbar once they’re hidden (e.g. when the sport is paused).
  • Mounted points when resizing the sport window:
    • superior recreation choices format being tousled;
    • collections web page dropping its chosen tab and web page;
    • social web page dropping its scroll place.
  • Mounted themed catalogues not having class tabs.
  • Mounted forge UI destroying any merchandise held by the cursor after unforging.
  • Mounted museum menu clicks on the OK button generally grabbing the artifact behind it as an alternative.
  • Mounted tailoring menu letting you trash some non-trashable gadgets.
  • Mounted arrange button in stock UIs letting you place any merchandise in particular chests like enrichers.
  • Mounted concern the place phoning Robin to get constructing costs after which resizing the window would allow the construct/demolish/and so on choices as when you’d visited the store instantly.
• Mounted particular gadgets and machines:
  • Mounted chest coloration getting reset while you swap chest kind.
  • Mounted crab pots not producing double catches appropriately with wild bait.
  • Mounted crab pots duplicating bait when loaded by a hopper.
  • Mounted crab pots not making use of deluxe bait and wild bait bonuses in some instances.
  • Mounted fences destroyed on click on when surrounded by impassable objects on three sides (above + left + proper) as an alternative of 4 as meant.
  • Mounted geode crushers incrementing the ‘geodes crushed’ stat when hovering, which allowed unintended RNG manipulation.
  • Mounted magic quiver trinket generally doing nothing if each a sound and invalid goal are in vary.
  • Mounted mannequins dropping their garments in the event that they’re moved into storage to create space (e.g. for an occasion). They now re-equip their earlier garments once they’re put again down.
  • Mounted tents not blocking merchandise placement.
  • Mounted watering cans with bottomless enchantment generally proven with a half-empty meter. Bottomless watering cans at the moment are at all times full.
• Mounted constructing upgrades not putting inside gadgets (just like the coop incubator) if…
  • furnishings is in the way in which. The furnishings is now moved identical to different objects.
  • an merchandise blocking placement can’t be moved. It’s now moved into the misplaced & present in that case.
• Mounted instances the place the Pirate’s Spouse quest chain may lock you out:
  • You probably have the hunt however misplaced the required merchandise, you now get a brand new Conflict Memento in a single day.
  • If the hunt was cancelled, now you can discuss to Birdie to restart it.
  • NPCs can now not mistakenly settle for the hunt gadgets as items or refuse to just accept their quest merchandise.
• Mounted location/map points:
  • Mounted display viewport at flawed place proper after warping on horseback in some instances.
  • Mounted wilderness farm not pre-building the primary cabin in separate-cabins mode.
  • Mounted grass in Marnie’s cow subject by no means regrowing.
  • Mounted Willy’s bait barrel lacking throughout evening market.
  • Mounted some lacking map tiles which allow you to stroll off-screen.
  • Mounted in a position to go away Stardew Valley Truthful’s competition space in odd years.
  • Mounted weed/stone particles spawning on high of positioned paths in some instances.
  • Mounted in a position to dig up buried treasure from non-diggable tiles in some instances.
  • Mounted forest fish now not catchable on the 4 corners farm.
  • Mounted bug the place utilizing the usual farm’s wallpaper/flooring in farmhouses of one other farm kind would reset them to that farm’s themed defaults.
• Mounted pre-1.6 saves generally dropping the Dwarvish Translation Information. The repair is retroactive for affected gamers.
• Mounted pre-1.6 farmhand stats not migrated appropriately. The repair is retroactive for affected farmhands.
• Mounted pre-1.6 tubs o’ flowers by no means blooming once more if their first day in 1.6 was in fall or winter.
• Mounted raccoon bundle accepting something for protect gadgets.
• Mounted stage requirement for farmer titles lowered by one in 1.6.
• Mounted fish ponds accepting a number of golden crackers earlier than the primary one lands within the water. They now register the primary golden cracker instantly (however nonetheless delay the visible change till it lands).
• Mounted two Desert Competition makeover outfits that utilized male shirts to feminine gamers.
• Mounted unusual conduct of store gadgets with each a inventory restrict and stack dimension (e.g. gadgets in a number of desert competition retailers).
• Mounted edge instances the place viewing a earlier yr’s secret santa letter within the collections tab would present the present yr’s secret santa within the recreation menu through the Feast of the Winter Star week.
• Mounted the throw-item-into-shipping-bin animation drawing the bottom uncolored sprite for coloured gadgets like roe.
• Mounted error loading cellular saves on different platforms.
• Mounted crash when loading a save file in some uncommon instances.
• Mounted crash when utilizing a tent on Ginger Island throughout an evening occasion.
• Mounted some cat items making use of fishing bonuses from the principle participant’s geared up fishing rod.
• Mounted movie show scene failing in some instances when gamers have beforehand unequipped trinkets.
• Mounted Junimo harvesters dropping the merchandise coloration when dropping a crop on the bottom on account of their hut being full.
• Mounted uncommon edge case the place a Junimo hut output chest has too many merchandise slots.

Multiplayer fixes

• Added an /unlinkPlayer [name] chat command, which lets the host participant launch a farmhand so it may be reclaimed by the subsequent one who connects.
• Mounted having the ability to steal one other participant’s roommate.
• Mounted farmhands in a position to declare a number of Desert Competition fishing quests per day.
• Mounted crash when reconnecting later within the day after leaving a competition.
• Mounted host crash if a farmhand disconnects whereas they’re between areas.
• Mounted NPC duplication in multiplayer fish derbies.
• Mounted crab pots & cattle owned by an offline farmhand checking the principle participant’s professions as an alternative.
• Mounted crab pots with no proprietor checking professions from the principle participant as an alternative of the participant including bait.
• Mounted farmhands generally not seing the message once they can’t enter an NPC’s bed room.
• Mounted Marlon’s desert competition quests not displaying the Calico Egg reward to farmhands.
• Mounted some multiplayer logic not dealing with an offline/invalid participant appropriately.
• Mounted some potential ‘null reference exception’ crashes in multiplayer code.
• Mounted crab pots with no proprietor checking the Mariner occupation as an alternative of Luremaster for the bait requirement in some instances.
• Mounted Willy not sending fishing rod mail to farmhands who be part of after spring 2.
• Mounted ‘ready for gamers’ examine together with disconnecting gamers.
• Mounted trains not enjoying chugga chugga sounds for farmhands.

Show textual content and localization fixes

• Within the credit, changed the Reddit/Twitter hyperlinks with a “Information & Group” hyperlink.
• Mounted an enormous variety of translation points for non-English gamers, and added automated checks to maintain translations extra in sync going ahead. For instance, this fixes…
  • dialogue/occasion adjustments in 1.6 which weren’t utilized in some languages;
  • lacking dialogues and occasion actions;
  • lacking, outdated, or incorrect translations;
  • lacking occasion preconditions (e.g. Leah’s 10-heart occasion may play on a wet day in some languages);
  • occasions enjoying the flawed music, not being skippable, or putting gamers or NPCs on the flawed spot;
  • translations having totally different dialogue portraits/breaks/and so on;
  • dialog subjects not began when one thing occurs;
  • textual content being proven with one phrase per dialogue field;
  • improved grammar (e.g. gender conjugation);
  • numerous errors and typos;
  • and plenty of different points.
• Many enhancements and fixes to translations and sprites, together with some re-translated item names.
• Renamed “cranberries jelly/juice/wine” to “cranberry jelly/juice/wine”.
• Mounted some dangerous phrases being produced by the random identify generator.
• Mounted NPC textual content indicators and a few chat/UI messages in multiplayer not at all times proven in your language.
• Mounted flavored gadgets in some chat/UI messages not proven appropriately (like “Participant put ‘Smoked’ into the potluck soup“).
• Mounted numerous typos in English textual content.
• Mounted particular order targets not re-translated when the language adjustments. (This repair solely applies to new particular orders going ahead.)
• Mounted Robin displaying the flawed variety of hardwood required for a home improve in some languages.
• Mounted some languages displaying Willy’s again room invite mail as “???” within the collections tab.
• Mounted some languages having inconsistent hat hair conduct.
• Mounted some languages producing gadgets with a special inside identify.
• Mounted French gamers not seeing prismatic impact for Magic Cowboy Hat and Magic Turban.
• Mounted French and Japanese displaying a ‘wants 5 coal’ message for the dehydrator.
• Mounted Russian membership coin and slots offset points.
• Mounted Russian Joja movie show tilesheet not displaying up.
• Mounted Russian software tooltips having overlapped names.
• Mounted Spanish jukebox displaying clean identify for ‘Ginger Island’ tune.
• Mounted buy-ticket messages displaying an unformatted value (like 1000g as an alternative of 1,000g).

Beauty fixes

• Added lights to Marcello’s ebook stand.
• Sam now adjustments uniform when he enters JojaMart, as an alternative of solely when he reaches his work tile.
• Mounted many bugs associated to mild sources (e.g. lights caught on display, proven within the flawed location, eliminated earlier than they need to be, and so on).
• Mounted points with the golden walnut & Qi gem drop-down show:
  • Added help for displaying each without delay (e.g. one other participant finds a golden walnut whilst you’re within the Qi gem store).
  • Mounted show generally caught on display completely.
  • Mounted show displaying the flawed kind in some instances.
  • Mounted show generally showing in multiplayer when the worth didn’t change.
• Mounted line wrapping for film concession description tooltips.
• Mounted visible glitch through the even-year Spirit’s Eve in case you have the Joja movie show.
• Mounted concern with padding on the sting of maximized recreation home windows on Home windows.
• Mounted a shirt that regarded bizarre.
• Mounted tooltip show points, like an empty house for edible gadgets that don’t recuperate any stamina/well being (like candy pea and crocus) or an unintended double house in tooltip buff names.
• Mounted lacking shadows behind some coloured gadgets (like wine) in menus.
• Mounted texture wrapping concern with Joja door.
• Mounted glitched hidden emote animations in NPC profile menu in some instances. NPCs now use at all times their default sprite within the profile view.
• Mounted purple slime merchandise sprite drawn one pixel decrease than different colours.
• Mounted lacking pixels in anvil sprite’s define.
• Mounted stray pixel in dried mushroom coloration masks.
• Mounted Krobus displaying a present icon for the void ghost pendant when he can’t settle for it.
• Mounted the item-received message slicing off a part of the merchandise identify if it accommodates a # character (like ‘Tropical Fish #173’).
• Mounted the item-received message generally displaying no depend or a flawed depend.
• Mounted some cattle having double shadows.
• Mounted stardrop tooltips displaying incorrect well being/vitality restoration quantities.
• Mounted timing of Easter egg in summit occasion.

Gamepad fixes

• Mounted numerous points/crashes with gamepad help.
• When shopping for animals or buildings with a gamepad, now you can use the D-pad to maneuver the cursor.
• Locally middle bundle UI, utilizing gamepad triggers to maneuver to donation slots and again now returns you to the identical spot.
• Added a small delay earlier than you’ll be able to cancel a waiting-for-players dialogue utilizing a gamepad, to stop by chance closing it instantly after urgent the OK button.
• Mounted gamepad points on the brand new recreation display.
• Mounted dresser tabs not selectable with a gamepad.

Modifications for modded gamers

• Added a Content/ContentHashes.json file containing the MD5 hash for each vanilla content material asset. This can be utilized by SMAPI and different instruments to detect corrupted or modified recreation recordsdata.
• Improved debug console commands.
• Whenever you go away a horse/mount in a brief location, it now returns residence when that location is eliminated.
• Mounted ‘Jewels Of The Sea’ ebook producing roe for customized fishing catches that usually don’t have roe.
• Mounted forage crops exterior the farm being eliminated every week.
• Mounted meteorite, unusual capsule, and stone owl solely showing within the top-left 64×64 tile space on giant customized farm maps.
• Mounted pagination in powers tab when mods add extra powers.
• Mounted edge instances all through the sport code associated to gadgets whose stacks can’t be decreased to zero (e.g. instruments).
• Mounted numerous errors when customized gadgets haven’t any identify.
• Mounted error when mods apply audio adjustments if there’s no audio gadget accessible.
• Mounted error if there aren’t any motion pictures accessible on account of a mod bug. The sport will now log a warning and select from the complete record of films as an alternative.
• Mounted crash if a farm animal is in a damaged constructing or location.
• Mounted crash if a smoked fish’s authentic fish information now not exists. You now get a scrumptious smoked Error Merchandise as an alternative.
• Mounted crash when customized sounds loaded from a mod’s .ogg recordsdata are paused/resumed many occasions.
• Mounted map tilesheet crash in some instances when enjoying split-screen mode with mods.
• Mounted points when the sport’s whichFarm and whichModFarm fields are out of sync.
• Mounted ‘mild supply already exists’ and ‘altering internet subject mum or dad’ warnings in some instances.
• Mounted mod information getting reset on chest kind swap.
• Mounted berry bushes displaying flawed sprite in areas the place seeds will be planted in any season.
• Mounted stardrop present response dialogue for customized NPCs defaulting to some uncooked information as an alternative of their cherished dialogue.
• Mounted in a position to enter the Adventurer’s Guild again room with out assembly the requirement if the door is open after a customized occasion.
• Mounted triggered actions being logged twice.

Modifications for mod authors

• See the 1.6.9 mod author migration guide for brand spanking new APIs, dialogue keys, recreation state queries, debug instructions, map properties, C# constants/fields/strategies, information fields, and plenty of different technical adjustments.